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Lefkowits, Laura; Woempner, Carolyn – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2006
Researchers at Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) recently completed a study of "beat-the-odds" schools--high-needs schools that demonstrated atypically high student achievement. This policy brief draws from the report of the study's findings, "High-Needs Schools--What Does It Take to Beat the Odds?"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Turnaround, Effective Schools Research, Organizational Change
Cicchinelli, Louis; Gaddy, Barbara; Lefkowits, Laura; Miller, Kirsten – 2003
This paper describes how implementation of four key aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act can move schools closer to raising achievement for all students. These four aspects--accountability and testing, flexible use of federal resources, school choice, and quality teachers and quality teaching--can allow schools and districts to realize the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2008
Since the publication of McREL's "2003 Annual Report," McREL staff members wrote more than 100 published articles in practitioner and peer-reviewed journals describing what they know from four decades of research on effective schools as well as years of practical experience working to help educators raise student performance: that…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Performance Factors, Change Strategies, Board of Education Policy